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DASH is an acronym for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The DASH diet is a comprehensive balanced eating plan for people who have high blood pressure. There are many benefits to the DASH diet, and not just for people with hypertension. The DASH diet follows a very flexible and balanced eating plan that is easy […]

If you have diabetes, you’ve got a lot on your plate, which may include a variety of diabetic complications. Depending upon your health, worrying about diabetic kidney disease might be the last thing on your mind. It shouldn’t be. What you do daily to manage your diabetes makes a big difference in your future kidney […]

In a new article, published in November of 2012, researchers looked at whether or not people on PD were more or less happy than others on different types of dialysis. The researchers made an attempt to look at the values and priorities in people’s lives to see how the dialysis was affecting them. This study […]

I got a question this week about grapefruits and kidney disease. Recently in the news, a lot of information has come out about how medications and grapefruit juice or grapefruits interact. Some news even suggesting that they cause kidney damage or sudden death. As a registered dietitian, I have known for many years that certain […]

The other day, November 14th, was World Diabetes Day, and I saw a really neat infographic from the IDF – Diabetes Prevalence In The World “Diabetes is running at record levels worldwide and half the people estimated to have the disease are, as yet, undiagnosed, according to a report on Wednesday. The number of people […]